Richard Florida highlighed where college grads are headed, pointed to a feature on the future of work, provided a map of the top sports towns, showed the economic benefits of marriage equality, spotlighted new stats on GOP decline, found a paradox in female happiness, and introduced his series on why class still matters. (A few readers dissented along the way.)

Richard Posner argued that the US economy is an depression, not a recession, and that the federal government is mostly to blame, not the banks. Posner also countered the common stereotype that bankers are "stupid, greedy, and reckless."

Lane Wilson explored, in two parts, the biases and myths surrounding the photography of the American West. She also took a look at the best places to get laid off.

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